New 
Principle Cloud Software Engineer - Storage
 Microsoft | |
 United States, California, Aliso Viejo | |
 Oct 16, 2025 | |
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OverviewMicrosoft Silicon and Cloud Hardware Infrastructure Engineering (SCHIE) is the team behind Microsoft's expanding Cloud Infrastructure and responsible for powering Microsoft's "Intelligent Cloud" mission. SCHIE delivers the core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft's over 200 online businesses including Bing, MSN, Office 365, Xbox Live, Skype, OneDrive and the Microsoft Azure platform globally with our server and data center infrastructure, security and compliance, operations, globalization, and manageability solutions. Our focus is on smart growth, high efficiency, and delivering a trusted experience to customers and partners worldwide and we are looking for passionate, energetic engineers to help achieve that mission. As Microsoft's cloud business continues to grow the ability to deploy new offerings and HW infrastructure on time, in high volume with high quality and lowest cost is of paramount importance. To achieve this goal, the Silicon Cloud Hardware Infrastructure Engineering (SCHIE) team is instrumental in defining and delivering measures of success for hardware design, qualification, fleet support, scale, and sustainability related to Microsoft cloud hardware. Azure Memory and Storage Center of Excellence (AMS CoE) is part of the SCHIE organization focusing on Memory and Storage devices going into the Cloud hardware servers. AMS provide memory and storage solutions to Azure, drive memory and storage suppliers to deliver high quality products, meeting our requirements. We are looking for an experienced hands-on Principal Software Engineer for SSD solutions in the AI and HPC fleet with a passion for customer focused solutions, insight and industry knowledge to develop hardware storage solutions that optimize for resiliency, reliability, cost and performance. Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees, we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond
ResponsibilitiesDesign and build best-in-class fleet resiliency systems for storage devices at scale Develop scalable live monitoring capabilities, fault detection and repair solutions Lead collaboration projects with hardware, firmware and software teams that fault reduction projects Build automation to drive repair efficiency for storage operations in the production fleet Collaborate with suppliers to design reliable, high performance and quality storage devices Analyze data to identify, prototype, and drive the implementation of technical and process improvements to increase the predictability, agility, and quality of Azure systems Actively support Azure service stakeholders Embody our culture and values. | |